In Australia, Annmarie Hughes attempted to murder her husband by poison she made of her potted plant, but eventually, the poison didn't make it into his heart and he survived. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole on March 27, 2001, and is currently serving her sentence at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1996, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, nurse Kristen Gilbert injected poison into 6 of her patients, causing the death of 4 of them.
She was executed by hanging at the age of 40 on March 24, 1873.
In the United Kingdom during the early 1870s, Mary Ann Cotton murdered by poison 21 people, including 3 of her husbands, her mother, a lover, a friend and 12 children, 11 of them were her own. Avoiding the death penalty because of her gender, she was sentenced to life in prison on May 17, 1955, and remained in prison until she died 10 years later, in 1965. She received the nickname "The Giggling Granny" because she seemed to giggle when she confessed the murders. The TV film was narrated by Marsha Crenshaw.īetween 1927-1954, Nannie Doss poisoned to death 4 of her husbands, 2 of her kids, her mother, one of her mothers-in-law and 2 of her grandsons.
The 52 minutes long TV film which was the basic pilot to the show covered 4 cases of women throughout history who committed murders by poison.
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